Senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel charts Jude Bellingham's remarkable resurgence with England at the World Cup.

With Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova set for an all-Czech Wimbledon final, Naomi Broady discusses why the nation produces so many top players and where the final will be won or lost.

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Steve Borthwick set to award three debuts in must-win Nations Championship clash

Three Lions eyeing semi-final spot but face familiar face

Triple fitness boost but four players are at risk of suspension

Paddy ‘The Baddy’ looks to bounce back from Justin Gaethje loss against Benoit Saint Denis

Three Lions would face massive semi-final showdown if they prevail at the Miami Stadium

Three Lions have several players who could be banned for any semi-final

A graphic during England’s win over Mexico showed Harry Kane had been shown a yellow card

Thomas Tuchel has turned to Konsa at right-back, with Marc Guehi and John Stones at centre-back, to deal with the seismic challenge of quelling Erling Haaland in the World Cup quarter-finals

The last person in the stadium who truly believed was Fery himself, outclassed but never outfought, a 5ft 9in battery pack in a world of power plantsWell, we were beginning to run out of ferry puns anyway. Arthur Fery’s run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon always had a kind of glazed and surreal quality to it, a shaggy-dog story that kept adding more and …

The former England midfielder is everywhere at this World Cup, having reached a popularity in the US other Britons have rarely achievedWatch US television for any length of time and the endless spume of adverts will eventually separate into three distinct types.The first are adverts for units of generic food-substance, each one essentially the same …

Heatwaves have long been part of the Tour but temperatures now are pushing the riders to limit of human enduranceThe Tour de France and the heat of the midday sun are old bedfellows, going back long before an era when the biggest catastrophe of the Tour’s opening week was a major fault in the Visma team bus’s air conditioning. Flip back 50 years to my …

With content-stacking and spoiler-avoiding, a fan with the right subscriptions can expect to enjoy 13 uninterrupted hours on the sofa on SaturdayStart practising those excuses. For England fans, this Saturday is one of those that demands serious thought, by which I mean how to wheedle out of prior engagements and family obligations. No fewer than four of the …

Veteran will be 40 during next year’s tournament‘I’m still able to compete at the highest level’Novak Djokovic has vowed that he will return to Wimbledon next year, when he will be 40, despite a painful straight sets defeat by Jannik Sinner.Djokovic looked second best in Friday’s semi-final as he succumbed 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to the world No 1. But …

Updates from the Wallabies’ second match of the tournamentAny thoughts? Get in touch with an emailAustralia in gold, France in blue, round two of the Nations Championship is under way…Anthem time in Brisbane, which means an always welcome rendition of La Marseillaise. Advance Australia Fair pales by comparison, but the duration of the song allows plenty …

England and Norway fans have flocked to Miami in their tens of thousands to enjoy the football and sunshineIt is not just another morning on Ocean Drive, where brashness mingles with brilliance and grandeur sits unashamedly alongside the grotesque. A Huddersfield Town flag is being hung from one of the art deco hotels that make this area of Miami Beach a …

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If I was a defender, I'd lose more sleep over facing Erling Haaland than I would Harry Kane. But if you asked me which striker I'd want leading my team, I'd choose Kane every time.